Okta has been named the winner of the AI Security Innovation category in the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards. Conducted by Tech Breakthrough, a leading global market intelligence organization, the annual program recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products that are driving progress and shaping the future of the global AI market.
Now in its ninth year, the AI Breakthrough Awards track the evolution of AI from early experimentation to real-world, enterprise-scale impact. This year’s program attracted more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 countries worldwide. Okta is recognized alongside 2026 award winners that include NVIDIA, Snowflake, Dell, AMD, Qualcomm, and Intuit.
"Winning the AI Breakthrough Award for AI Security Innovation is a testament to our team's commitment to solving the hardest security challenges of the AI era,” says Harish Peri, SVP and GM for Okta for AI Agents. “By securing AI agents, we are giving enterprises the confidence they need to safely deploy AI and unlock its full potential."
A blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise
AI agents are rapidly reshaping modern business, ushering in new levels of productivity but also new risks. To guide customers and the industry, Okta developed the blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise, a reference architecture that helps enterprises answer three critical questions:
Where are my agents?
What can they connect to?
What can they do?
This award helps validate Okta’s identity-first approach to answering these questions and securing the agentic enterprise. Through innovations like Okta for AI Agents and Auth0 for AI Agents, Okta is extending its identity security capabilities to non-human identities, enabling autonomous AI systems to operate with the right permissions, governance, and runtime security.
Okta has also partnered with standards bodies to develop Cross App Access (XAA)—an open, vendor-neutral protocol that helps govern how AI agents connect to enterprise applications and resources. Through 25+ new integrations, XAA provides a standardized way to govern these connections, helping ensure interactions flow through centralized identity policy with tightly scoped access.
Learn more about how Okta is securing the next generation of AI-driven enterprises.
